After finishing dinner with his soccer teammates at a McDonough buffet restaurant Saturday night, a 15-year-old from Macon reached for two of his favorite cookies for dessert. White chocolate with Macadamia nuts.

Within minutes of eating them, Diallo Robbins-Brinson was on the floor, unconscious, his mother told the AJC early Wednesday. The Central High School freshman died Monday at an Atlanta hospital after apparently suffering an allergic reaction, his mother said.

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Diallo no longer carried an Epi-Pen, a device containing medicine to stop an allergic reaction, according to his mom.

Absolutely devastating to read this. My heart breaks for this family and for his young life cut short. We need better education, somehow, for people living with life-threatening allergies. The message is simply not getting out there.

I do think its the size that keeps them from carrying it. I'm in the US and had to nag my pharmacist to get me twin jet injectors. Though they no longer make them there are some out there. I will be very sad when I have to start carrying an epipen they are ridiculously large. They need to rework their packaging.

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